Poorly made and slow. This movie makes Boogeyman look scary. The very last scene is nothing short of pathetic in trying to get in one last scare.

The story is awful culminating with a supposed bad guy from the 16th century.

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Your high and have no idea what the fuck your talking about and furthermore, I've upgraded my grade of this movie from a B+ to an "A" now after seeing it again and it's FANTASTIC!! Better than any horror movie I've seen in a long, long time and for me, that's saying ALOT.. Your loss I suppose and I guess we can't please everyone but I'll challenge any movie critic, any poster who dumps on this and says that of all the horror movies we've seen, PG-13 wise, Amityville Horror kicks the holy crap out of it and the audience I sat with tonight agreed, especially the woman in front of me clutching onto her boyfriend saying she was gonna be sick.. FUCKING EXCELLENT!!! Bravo Michael Bay.. BRAVO!!!

The one thing I hate about this board ... every fucking horror movie gets and "A" from SOMEBODY

We'll try not to give out A's to horror movies anymore, movies35. We're sorry for having an opinion.

2 of your top 5 movies of this year are horror movies

Jesus, wasn't it you that already gave the movie HIGH TENSION an "A" before it's even released?? :laugh: Hey, I orignally gave Amityville a "B+" and did so upon very little sleep, but after a 2nd viewing and much needed rest I got, this movie really is damn good and I increased it to an "A".. It's not only damn good, but I'm thinking of posting a brand new thread where I hope that it hits 0% on the RT meter and gets even more bad reviews so I can laugh at all these critics and moviegoers who read so much into this movie, so much into every little detail and expected 100% accuracy with the novel in an effort to put the movie down.. I think it's great and I hope the fucker hits rock bottom.. :laugh:

I gave HIGH TENSION a 9/10 (A-), so that isn't exactly an "A". I saw HIGH TENSION over two months ago, I got it from a friend on the internet. Unlike most horror movies these days, HIGH TENSION was actually a good flick.

And they're the ONLY horror movies that got a good grade this year.

One of the better horror films of 2005. Although it doesn't hold up well, it's still pretty great.

B+

What do you get when you take one of the best fourty five minutes in modern horror history and mix it with one of the worst fourty five minutes in modern horror history? You get The Amityville Horror remake, my friends. This film is wildly inconsistent, and ultimately pretty damn disappointing by the time the closing credits roll on the screen. I guess we'll start with the good, which was the entire opening fourty five minutes, or as I like to call it - everything that happened before the priest character was introduced. The film begins with a literal bang, in one of the best opening sequences i've seen in a film in quite some time. The films really builds off that opening surge of momentum. Everything is just hitting on all cylinders. The character development of the Lutz family is extremely good for a horror film, the acting by all involved (even Reynolds) is damn good, the direction is top of the line, and there are some pant-shittingly scary set peices that happen to include heapin' helpins of the red stuff (the bathroom scene with the kid brushing his teeth and the closet scene with the babysitter are two stand outs that will have you up later than you want to be at night). Then, all of the sudden, everything just stops. It's quite shocking how the film just falls completely off the tracks once the character of the priest is introduced. You can really tell that the filmmakers tried way too hard to get the film extremely scary too early and just plain ol' ran out of ideas to cap the film off with. A golden rule I always like to use with horror films is, once you have to rely on bugs to be scary for you, you've really lost your way. And that ending. Oh, god - that ending! I was stuck asking myself when the film stopped being a horror film and turned into one of "thrillers" you see so often on the Lifetime network. Here's the checklist:

Crazy husband chasing helpess wife and kids all over the house (including highly improbable roof sequence) - CHECK
Amazingly adept 12 year old saves the day numerous times - CHECK
Give us a taste of the ending everybody wants to see and rip it away with the "it was all just a dream/halucination" cliche - CHECK

With that said, there were some nice things about the ending. The Ketcham character was very interesting, and the atrocities commited to the Native Americans were deeply disturbing and provided some horrific imagery that Clive Barker would have been proud of, but it all wasn't enough to save the ending.

I really wanted to like this movie. Nay - I wanted to love this movie, and the most frustrating thing about it is the first fourty five minutes completely delivered on everything that I was hoping for and them some. Andrew Douglas seems like an incredibly gifted filmmaker, and he was on the verge of delivering one of the best modern horror films around. He just had too many great ideas too quickly, and the film collapsed in on itself. I give The Amityville Horror a C+.

Read my comments about your grade on other boards.. I just find it sort of odd that you didn't really like the movie, you didn't love the movie, but still gave it a grade of a high "C+"??? I mean, that's almost above average and closer to a "B-"??? Did my hyping this really affect folks in wanting to enjoy this movie or what?? If so, my apologies.. I guess once again, I'm easier to please them most horror buffs or fans and I just don't read into every detail and want to find implausibilties over a movie in an effort to put it down..

Better than Saw?

No way....

You seem to have completely ignored the first half of my review, BKB, and only focused on the negative aspect of it. Like I said, I loved the first half and hated the second half it. A C+ grade is completely resonable. If the entire film would have been as good as the first half, it'd be an A. If it were as bad as the last half, it'd be a D. So, I picked a happy medium.

I enjoyed SAW and all, but when it really gets right down to it: SAW relied on the ending to put the movie over and without that ending, I don't think I would've enjoyed the movie at all.. The ending made SAW and the sequel is gonna be hard to top that..

Oh, Saw, I forgot about that.

No, not better than Saw... :razz:

How would you grade Saw?

Good boy

I'd give SAW a "B+".. Like I said the ending made the movie and without it, who knows..

BKB have you seen this yet?

THE AMITYVILLE HORROR (2005) - 9/10 (A-)
Okay, I feel that I'm really going to get bashed now. The trailer looked absolutely terrible but the final product was quite good. The cast was great and the pacing was to die for. The movie wasn't scary at all but then again, I wasn't exactly thinking it would be scary. None of the jumps got me either. There were a couple parts that were a bit slow but that's to be expected. I think it's even better then the original. It was a bit more gory than I would have expected, the whole babysitter thing in the closet rocked! Day 28 was amazing too, I loved it. Okay guys, bash away. Just remember, I didn't give it an "A," I only gave it an "A-" :wink:

Sounds excellent! I can't wait to see it later this weekend

You'll love it Thompson \:D/

I went into The Amityville Horror hoping to see a good, scary movie. I really did, but I was severely disappointed. It wasn't good, and it wasn't scary. Only one scene had me jump in the slightest bit, and that was the scene where the little boy goes into the bathroom and they show this.. demon thing. The audience jumped at this scene too, and there were a few yells. Immediately after, laughter. They also laughed after the movie attempted to scare them, when it appeared like a person ran by the camera when Melissa George was washing dishes. They laughed a couple of times, actually. Just like The Grudge. Speaking of The Grudge, The Amityville Horror used the exact same scare tactics as The Grudge. Showing something come out of nowhere just as the music picks up. Infact, The Grudge had more effective scenes like that than TAH. There was nothing terrifying about this movie. I was never sitting on the edge of my seat, and I found myself not caring about this idiotic family.

And the ending, when they tried to explain what was happening with Reverand and the Indian.. stuff was just stupid. Horror movies are far more effective when absolutely nothing is explained, at least they are for me, and I felt that explanation for why this was going on was just incredibly weak. The acting in this movie was so-so. The kids were horrible, Ryan Reynolds ranged from mediocre to good, mainly mediocre. Melissa George, however, was really great. She plays a stupid woman perfectly. And then, suddenly, the movie just... ends. Just like that, they leave the house and it's over with. I felt there should have been more. I know it's based on a supposed true story, but come on. That was a boring ending. I really don't believe that true life stories make good movies.

Overall, I'd give this a D+. They tried, but they failed, at least with me. I believe the movie fell apart about half way through it, and it suffered until the end. I wasn't scared, I wasn't captivated, and I didn't care. None are a good feeling to have towards a horror movie.

Thank you! I mean, come on now. If I sat here all day trying to force people to give Saw and Shaun of the Dead A+'s, and give Napolean Dynamite a D, I would be a disappointed guy by day's end. All a matter of opinion. I won't be basing my reviews on what anyone else says.